I'm always pleased with the amount of Gaelic that can be gotten today through many media – if you know where to find them! I'd like to tell you about some program that you can listen to, about which you may not have heard before now.

The first program is Aiseridh nan Gaidheal. This can be heard on CKJM, Chéticamp community radio, Saturday afternoons at 6pm AST, on twolochs radio in Gairloch Scotland at seven pm GMT on Tuesdays, and again on Saturday mornings at 11am at: alllonline www.ckjm.ca and 2rl.co.uk. Aiseridh nan Gaidheal has been on the air for sixteen years and they play only Gaelic songs and music. There is a little conversation, in Gaelic and English.

Very near the other coast of Canada, coming from the University of Northern British Colombia Radio, 'Celtic Fire' can be heard at various times through the week. Songs and music from Cape Breton, from Scotland and from other places can be heard here. Andrew MacFadyen is the host of this program. He is an excellent singer and has composed a few Gaelic songs. Andrew learned a good portion of his Gaelic in Cape Breton where he has visited many times, and he has recorded two cds of Gaelic songs.

From the (United) States comes another program that was first broadcast as a podcast, a series of interviews in Gaelic that were originally made between 2005 and 2008, more than thirty of them, with people from Nova Scotia, from the Old Country and "other places throughout the world where Gaelic may be found," as they said. They are not putting out new material now, but the interviews they did can be found at: www.gaelcast.com, on Facebook and on Tumblr at: www.tumblr.com/blog/gaelcast. Although it isn't on the radio, I thought it was appropriate to include it.

If anyone knows of other programs like these, I would like it if you would write to this blog about them, so that information about them will be spread around.